| Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia | | | Editor:
| Samuels, Jeffrey
McDaniel, Justin Thomas
Rowe, Mark Michael | | Contribution by:
| Baird, Ian G.
Bell, Corey L.
Berkwitz, Stephen C.
Bernstein, Anya
Bhutia, Kalzang Dorjee
Caple, Jane E.
Chia, Jack Meng-Tat
Craig, Sienna
Elison, William
Emmrich, Christoph
Evans, Grant
Farrelly, Paul J.
Ferguson, Jane M.
Fisher, Gareth
Friedrich, Daniel G.
Galmiche, Florence
Gamburd, Michele R.
Gayley, Holly
Gellner, David N.
Graf, Tim
Guthrie, Elizabeth
Harris, Elizabeth J.
Hewamanne, Sandya
High, Holly
Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Amy
Jacoby, Sarah H.
Jerryson, Michael
Johnson, Irving Chan
Kawanami, Hiroko
Kent, Daniel W.
Kerekes, Susanne Ryuyin
Kim, Hwansoo Ilmee
Krawengit, Tongthida
Ledgerwood, Judy
Lee, Jun-Youb (JY)
Leider, Jacques P.
Letizia, Chiara
LeVine, Sarah
Makley, Charlene
Marston, John
McLaughlin, Levi
McMahan, David L.
Miller, Leigh
Nelson, John K.
Nichols, Brian J.
Pichler, Carina
Pinthongvijayakul, Visisya
Ritzinger, Justin R.
(Ruiz), Roger Casas
Scott, Gregory A.
Sheravanichkul, Arthid
Sihlé, Nicolas
Starling, Jessica
Surendran, Gitanjali
Tannenbaum, Nicola
Terrone, Antonio
Thompson, Ashley
Travagnin, Stefania
Walters, Jonathan S. | | ISBN: | 978-0-8248-5855-1 | | Publication Date: | Nov 2017 | | Publisher: | University of Hawaii Press
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $28.00 | Book Description:
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This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers--all whose lives reflect...
More Description This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers--all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes.
The editors and contributors are fundamentally concerned with how individual Buddhists make meaning and display this understanding to others. Some practitioners profiled look to the past, lamenting the transformations Buddhism has undergone in recent times, while others embrace these. Some have adopted a "new asceticism," while others are eager to explore different religious traditions as they think about their own ways of being Buddhist. Arranging the profiles according to these themes--looking backward, forward, inward, and outward--reveals the value of studying individual Buddhists and their idiosyncratic religious backgrounds and attitudes, thus highlighting the diversity of approaches to the practice and study of Buddhism in Asia today. Students and teachers will welcome sections on further readings and additional tables of contents that organize the profiles thematically, as well as by tradition (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana), region, and country. | |